Tomato sauce with pie

[chrisandsharon]

Was driving through Tamworth a while back in a convoy of cars heading south after a christening in Toowoomba. We were discussing lunch over the radios and agreed we'd duck into town and have lunch...........support locals instead of doing the usual big M thing we thought.

Decided on pies so went to a local bakery.
4 drinks were $16.00 and the little old style sachet sauces were 90 cents each

When she told me the bill I said. 'Is that right'. She went through the bill in her best English holding the calculator up and pressing away at the same time. When she got to the sauces I said 'how much'.....'90 CENT, 90 CENT EACH!' she yells.

I can handle payin more for the drinks etc but when she yelled the sauce price at me I thought '**** this'...........'back to maccas kids' and walked off.

Am I gettin old or is 90 cents for the old sauce a bit rich.

It was more so the principle too. We head off the main road to support locals and this bakery wants to rip us off. I suppose the local big m has local workers so we did the right thing anyway

[Polyal]

yeah usually 15-20c..depends on how much you want the pie...LOL

[SVTVNM]

WOW! that's crazy. the sell price from wholesalers on a box of those use to be around $7.00 for a box of 100... The mark up on takeaway is insane even when you factor in costs.

[Mont5.0]

i think if you spend over 10 dollars in a bakery on pies (average 3 pies) then they should throw them in for free.

[Polyal]

Yeah sushi places give away those little soya sauces even with a $2.50 roll

[mash again]

i hate them little packets, put my sauce in the pie, wont go back to them sachet places, wouldnt pay 90c for one either. Hungry craps starts to look like good value after buying a pie and a drink.

[FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0]

The obvious alternate here, of course, is you could forego shelling out your hard-earned coin on sauce and actually just enjoy the taste of the pie as it comes.

I used to be a sauce fanatic, but now just enjoy the unadulterated flavour of the pie, just as it was intended.

Craig H

[cheap]

You did the right thing, don't make a fuss, explain that you're not prepared to pay an outrageous price and walk away. The pie shop in Canungra offers free sauce, mind you not before the do gooders from Qld Health got involved and wanted him to stop...

[mash again]

a pie without sauce is unaustralian!

[CoupeKing]

$16 for four drinks, I would have walked out then and there. Unless it was half Bakery half Pub.

[martinijosh]

A+++ would read again .

[Maka]

Where in Tamworth is this shop? I might go buy a pie & some sauce from them!

cheers, Maka

[MAGPIE]

If the pie is any good you don't need the sauce...

The trouble is finding a truly good pie.

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by MAGPIE

If the pie is any good you don't need the sauce...

The trouble is finding a truly good pie.

If you guys are ever around Macedon Ranges in Victoria, stop into Lancefield Bakery, the pie there is good, it won second best in Victoria or something a few years ago.

If you want sauce its 30 cents lol.

Then go to the other side of Mt Macedon and get vanilla slices from Bourkies Bakery in Woodend, best vanilla slice

I'm not too keen on tomato sauce, except on snags because snags are gross.

[TheSneakiness]

Originally Posted by Mont5.0

i think if you spend over 10 dollars in a bakery on pies (average 3 pies) then they should throw them in for free.

Love to know where you can get three pies for 10 bucks cause I'm there. Even a simple plain beef pie here is 4.50 minimum.

Originally Posted by MAGPIE

The trouble is finding a truly good pie.

For QLD'ers its a no brainer. The old Bakery on the main drag through Fernvale on the way out to the dams. Just be prepared to be patient because it is a popular stop.

[Ben73]

I have found a few good pie shops where sauce ruins the pie. But these places often charge $4.50 or so for a cheese and bacon pie. Getting a bit exxy once you get a drink for $3-$4.
Last price I paid for sauce was 30c. I think that is more than a fair price.

I used to get a pie and drink if I wanted a cheap takeaway lunch. These days it costs just as much as any other takeaway meal.

[Mont5.0]

Originally Posted by Rapid_Axe

Love to know where you can get three pies for 10 bucks cause I'm there. Even a simple plain beef pie here is 4.50 minimum.
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$3.50 EACH at the bakery near my work.

[poppa smurf]

yep!......restaurant in Queenstown not only charged us for the little tiny bread rolls ($1.00 each) but we had to get up and go back to the "orders counter", pay and "reorder" our meal.

most of these little places start as a "tuck shop", then a "deli", then a "dine in take away" then a full blown restaurant with staff wearing black and looking as if they have somewhere better to be, with the accompanying prices.

closer to the smoke, the worse they are.

[ford71V8]

If it needs sauce, you need to find better pies

[MercurySilver]

yeah i dont do the sauce thing wither

might stop and get a beef and shiraz pie on the way to work now

[Franco Cozzo]

Beef and shiraz pie? Interesting.

Never heard of that before.

[mik]

must have sauce on pie !

[xisled]

Looking at sauce price from KFC McDonalds and such you are looking at around 50 cent each. Even a pizza shop charges you $1 or so for an extra ingredient. So a small shop selling sauce for 90 cents each is about right.

Funny thing is, most people will pay the 90 cent for the sauce as they will have no other choice for sauce. So the bakery is the smart as they know people will buy the sauce at 90 cents.

[JBomb3000]

Originally Posted by xisled

So the bakery is the smart as they know people will buy the sauce at 90 cents.

Except the OP walked out and didn't buy a thing. So it actually cost them $16 in drinks plus whatever he would have spent on pies.

[Stefan]

OP went in with kids.

You could put a pie prepared by a award winning chef infront of them and they will need sauce.

But it does get tough supporting small businesses when a cup of coffee, a couple of apple juices, a muffin or two and a sandwich cost upwards of $35.

[xisled]

Originally Posted by JBomb3000

Except the OP walked out and didn't buy a thing. So it actually cost them $16 in drinks plus whatever he would have spent on pies.

Yes but the OP would be in the small minority who did this. All it would take is for 1 person a day to purchase the sauce and in 10 days the box of sauce is paid off (going buy box of sauce with 50 is $9.00). Once the box of sauce is paid, it will only take the bakery 18 days to make up the $16.00 that the op would have spent, from sauce sales and that is if a person a day purchase the sauce.

So you may think it is a huge loss, but buy charging a massive mark up on a basic essential need, they are making massive profit on the sauce and probably out weights the upset customer.

[chrisandsharon]

The 4 drinks were the 'lipton tea' variety at $4 each and were for my parents, wife and myself. Kids x 2 had apple juice in the popper style.

The bill came to nearly $40 with the pies. The kids dont eat pies......the 3 year old has a plain white roll with nothing on it and our 7 year old loves the vegemite scrolls when we go to bakeries. The 4 pies were for the adults. Ah well she would have made that back in no time selling those sauces for '90 CENT, 90 CENT EACH' lol. The pies were $3.50 if I remember right which was normal.

Dunno about a pie without sauce though ......couldnt imagine one without it.

If anyone is cruising through Kangaroo Valley there's a new pie shop thats opened up in the main street.........beeeeautiful! Definitely worth a stop. About $3.50 upwards depending on the variety........sauce 30 CENT!

[XB GS 351 Coupe]

Originally Posted by xisled

Yes but the OP would be in the small minority who did this. All it would take is for 1 person a day to purchase the sauce and in 10 days the box of sauce is paid off (going buy box of sauce with 50 is $9.00). Once the box of sauce is paid, it will only take the bakery 18 days to make up the $16.00 that the op would have spent, from sauce sales and that is if a person a day purchase the sauce.

So you may think it is a huge loss, but buy charging a massive mark up on a basic essential need, they are making massive profit on the sauce and probably out weights the upset customer.

You clearly don't own a business..lol

90 cents for sauce is robbery, especially since it costs the shop around 2-4 cents, so it's going to take the shop 18 days to make up for one person walking out?? No, they will NEVER make it up, as a sale lost is a sale lost for ever unless you can go back in time, then add the repeat business that they will never get, that's how a business goes broke.

IMO if your buying a pie from a shop probably priced around $4-6 like most good pies are these days then sauce should come with it for free, or 10-25 cents the most.

We have a local pie shop/bakery/coffee shop and I went there once in two years, the coffee was too hot and weak and the pie was overpriced and nothing special, so in two years I have never gone back, actually went out and bought my own coffee machine because of it and make my own coffee at home and I buy pies in town that I keep in the freezer……if they made a decent coffee and sold a reasonably priced pie they would see me in their shop at least 2-4 times a week

To get back to the OP, for 90 cent sauce I too would have walked out, I will be in Tamworth for a few days next month, give me the heads up of the shop so I too can walk out when they tell me the sauce price

[FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0]

Originally Posted by mash again

a pie without sauce is unaustralian!

I used to think so too until I turned on my taste buds and experienced a whole new world of flavour

Craig H

[chrisandsharon]

.....pies may have been beautiful but never got to find out. If you go to the bakery closest to the RM Williams shop XB take your own sauce and let us know how you go for our next trip